VuWall-Matt

Speaking as someone who's never owned a tablet, but always buys iPhone+ sized phones (6+,7+), I'm exited for this (and maybe Apple's iteration of this?) in the coming years. I am the type to even hate turning my phone sideways (because it's always on rotation lock) so being able to physically open a thing would probably reduce the barrier to entry of enjoying of my phone / all-in-one device.

Honestly, as a first publicly available iteration it's pretty sleek. I'm excited for the future all over again as this becomes mainstream.

I've never heard a peep from my X1C3 or X1C5.

Wow, I guess I'm both surprised and not surprised to see the Harry Potter series in 5 of the 20 top read fiction spots.

Last week I saved ~$400 by googling "Lenovo Coupon Code" and using a few it spit out. So yes, sometimes they're bunk, but sometimes you get lucky.

Anything similar to this for Canadians?

Okay, for four open caves.jpg in Notepad. Inside is some hex:

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Convert it to a string and you get:

??Numbers are amazing. Follow the count.

  V -----------------------------------

> 1 7 8 5 4 10 1 2 6 3 6 1. 9|

|4. 2 9 4 2 7 9 8 5 6 5 2 7|

|4 10 9 7 4 2 5 9 6 8 10 7 9|

|8 5 3 5 3 5 4 7 2 9 6 1 8|

|2 7 1 3 4 1 5 8 4 9 8 8 3|

|6 1 9 4 5 5 7 3 1 2 6 10 4|

|10 8 7 1 2 4 5 8 2 5 7 9 1|

|2 3 5 7 1 4 6 9 5 3 4 5 6|

|9 1 4 4 8 3 7 6 2 5 1 6 7|

|2 1 9 3 7 4 5 7 3 6 8 7 8|

|8 3 8 5 8 4 6 1 5 9 1, 10 6|

|6 3 5 7 7 1 10 4 8 6 3 5 9 >

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No it seems fine. How would I test for CPU throttling? That said, I do find 8GB RAM restrictive for the number of tabs/VM I have open and wish I had 16GB. Also, I think the SSD might be slowly dying because it's had many, many writes on it by now (reformats, VMs, videos, etc.) and sometimes Windows takes ages to open Explorer to show me my files.

I've got a Thinkpad X1 Carbon (2015) that I run hooked up to two external 27" 1080p monitors along with the 14" 1080p laptop screen itself. My host OS is Windows 8.1 with my Chrome/Word stuff, some Visual Studio, and then I have an Ubuntu VM I run for all other types of development.

The portability and battery life of this laptop are what I love most.I can go to a coffee shop for 9-10AM and work through to 5PM without needing my charger.

+1. I've had a T420 for about 5-6 years now. Added an SSD to it and it still works great. It's my secondary laptop now, and I have the 2015 X1 Carbon that is my daily-driver that I couldn't be happier with. It's light, portable, and its battery is a champ. I run Win 8.1 with things like Chrome, Visual Studio, Word/Excel, light Photoshop/Illustrator, and some Xubuntu virtual machines. I'd recommend either of these laptops. In fact, we just bought a few more T420's for the office, gave them SSDs, and installed Xubuntu. They work great.

Would this mean that you can encode the Chrome windows itself and send it off over the network to be decoded by, well, anything that decodes H.264, possibly another Chrome window's decoder?

Any suggestions? I'm always looking for other places to read a variety of tech news!